UMCHS, Inc./ Served as Executive Director for large organization covering 11 eastern Oregon counties covering over 5600 square miles, 25 service locations, with 230 staff and 200+ volunteers in order to equip children and those who care for them for lifelong learning & success. Co-Lead for the Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub. Advised on investments in early learning in Eastern Oregon, and participated in regional collaborative to develop early learning centers where all children’s services could be accessed in ‘state of the art’ facilities.Insured organization reached stellar outcomes for Head Start, Early Head Start, Early Head Start- Child Care Partnerships, Oregon-Pre-kindergarten programs, and public preschools for 912 children/slots in 7 counties, CCR&R and QRIS mandates in 8 counties in Oregon and 3 Child Care Aware & Early Achievers efforts, 6 WIC clinics in five counties and Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting, Healthy Families, Intensive Home Visiting for Child welfare and Self Sufficiency for large frontier, rural, and urban sectors. Developed collaborative with local community college and universities to enhance workforce development and curriculum enhancement and practicum experiences in best practice settings. Project management responsibilities covered all aspects of administration including identifying core organizational and strategic assets as well as gaps in service, merging mission & vision using innovative program design. Ultimately responsible for Program, Facilities & Operations, Human Resources and Fiscal Operations including communications, board and policy council development, public partnerships to collaborate and braid fund streams.

Served as Division Director for Child Welfare Services for Eastern Washington, advancing initiatives and innovative program designs in the sectors of permanency, safety and well-being of vulnerable children and youth at risk of child maltreatment. Partnerships to meet the complex needs of children and families while advancing systems reforms and commitments that resulted in best practice. Functioned as liaison with private, state, and federal entities regarding increasing privatization, health and mental health initiatives. Managed agency serving 13,000 clients including coordination of supportive service for veteran families and other housing supports , employment, welfare, juvenile justice and prevention opportunities. Responsible for busy Medicaid mental health program serving school age children and 2000 of our chronically mentally ill populations, foster care, Independent living services for adolescents, Child Care Aware, Maternal & Child Health, Housing programs and elder services. Program, Facilities & Operations, Human Resources and Fiscal Operations of TriCities sites. Successfully managed media & marketing through press conferences, releases, expository pieces for publication as well as an ongoing annual partnership/fundraiser with McClatchy News, Tri-City Herald, GapWest Broadcasting and KEPR-TV. Achieved a balanced financial portfolio with diversified program revenues and developed effective donor base that quadrupled in size through effective fundraising in multiple human service delivery areas. Emphasized results-oriented leadership and cultivated stakeholders for win/win solutions that crossed jurisdictions & bureaucracies. Demonstrated innovative program development in at-risk issue prevention/intervention, and community education on various topics related to at-risk youth and families.